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University offers tools to improve student safety Part of the beauty of living on and around a college campus like the University of Colorado Boulder’s is the sense of community it builds. That newness, the feeling of being alone you might experience upon first ...

Wave of beetle-kill reboots state’s forest products industry...

Though you’ve likely already heard that college will be some of the best years of your life — which has some truth to it — there will also be times when everything isn’t coming along just dandy. But just because your mom isn’t around to help doesn’t mean you won’t ...

You’re dirty, bruised and sore. So are the people around you. Paying upwards of $90 to run (sometimes bike) and crash through military-style obstacles isn’t exactly the typical way to spend a Saturday. So why are adventure races gaining in popularity? Because in ...

There´s a new kind of technology in town, and it’s subtle enough to walk past on the street, but strong enough to change your life. Or, at least, that’s what the people who practice kundalini yoga will tell you...

How and where to get academic support You’ve seen it in just about every movie about college you’ve ever seen — the cliché slacker dude who sails through his classes without cracking a book or waking up for lab. Then there are the stoners who fail their classes ...

What if you could improve the infrastructure on the electric grid to make it smarter? In 2008, Xcel Energy embarked on an ambitious pilot program designed to do just that in Boulder. Called SmartGridCity, the program was intended to add digital tracking capabilities ...

As fall harvests wind down, some backyard gardeners may think the work is at an end. But local agricultural experts agree that there are several steps that should be taken to make next year’s growing season even more bountiful. Or even prolong the current yield...

This spring, like many Boulder residents with even a tiny scrap of lawn, I looked out my window and was appalled to see that hundreds of bright yellow dandelions had taken over. I quickly went to work trying to pull them out, but almost all of them were back the next...

Five and half years after the collapse of the global financial market, fingers are still being pointed: at the wealthy for reckless trading, at the poor for living above their means, at Republicans for deregulating, at Democrats for runaway spending...

As an incoming freshman, it’s important not to equate a university’s student government with the lax, prom-planning responsibilities that high school student governments often handle...

Armed with new titles, student government eyes Rec Center expansion Your student government controls the largest student-run budget of all public universities in the country, and arguably has the most power. With your student fees, it funds and oversees several ...